State v. Melton

— The appellant was tried and convicted for an assault with intent to commit rape, and his punishment assessed at six months imprisonment in the county jail. The indictment was framed under section 3490, Bevised Statutes, 1889, and the second count on which appellant was convicted was as follows, to-wit:

*647“And the grand jurors aforesaid on their oath aforesaid do further present and charge, that, on or about the twentieth day of June, 1891, at the county of Newton and state of Missouri, one Henry Melton in and upon one Alice Ritter did unlawfully and feloniously make an assault, with intent…